Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,717, Jeremiah Fugate, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Fugate, Jeremiah
S. 10.717
carded
CONTENTS

12,120-
District of Columbia
General Greene
of Greene in the State of Greene who was a Greene in the Greene commanded by Captain Greene of the Greene commanded by Col. Greene in the Greene line for Greene -
Inscribed on the Roll of Greene at the rate of 20 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1833 - and deposited present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 40 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 10 50
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Catharine Rice - Clerk Book 6 Vol. 6 Page 110

$20 per ann-
D. Col. Roll
Mr. Mason present

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
State of Virginia Fairfax County } ss -
On this eighteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred & thirty three, personally appeared in Open Court, before the County Court of Fairfax now sitting Jeremiah Fugate a resident of the said County of Fairfax in the State of Virginia aged about seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers named officers & served as herein after stated. That he was drafted as a Militiaman in the County of Stafford in the State of Virginia and served for upwards of two months under Captain Joseph Cook at different places on the Potomac, & was then transferred to & under the command of Captain W m Harden who then marched his Company to York Town about the 15 th of June 1781. And he was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col o James Garrett (as he believes). And that he continued to serve in the Company and Regiment aforesaid until after the siege of York, when he was marched with the prisoners to Winchester in the County of Frederick (or) & then marched back to the County of Stafford, where he then resided, and was there discharged about the last of October 1781, his term of service having been upwards of six months. He further says that he has no documentary evidence, that he had a written discharge, as he understood it to be; but that he lost it many years ago, never having supposed it would be of any consequence - He does not know of any person except John English who can testify as to any personal knowledge of his service. That said English is a very old & infirm man now living in the County of Fairfax, but unable to come to Court. He further states that there is an Englishman living in his vicinity, But that he is personally known to Thomas May & George Millen members of the present

to William Mop Clerk of said Court & to Thomas Mearns now secret & a practicing member of the Bar - To Hugh Nolet & John Allison two old neighbors now present & to many other persons now residing in the County of Fauquier - That he removed a great many years ago from the County of Stafford & in which he was born to the said County of Fauquier where he now resides and has always resided since his said removal. He has now no record of his Age, tho' it was set down in the family Bible, but it has long since been torn out or lost - He believes all the persons above referred to as knowing him, & indeed all others who know him, will testify as to his veracity & good character, & that they believe he has served as herein stated -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State as known to him -
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid -
In presence of
Jeremiah his Foyate mark
We Hugh Nolet and John Allison residing in the said County of Fauquier State of Virginia do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Foyate who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be between seventy five & eighty years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he resides in that pension -
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
In presence of
Hugh Nolet John his Allison mark
The following certificate of affidavit (attached also by James Langston a justice of the peace) was also produced & read to the Court Fauquier County 5 th inst -
Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid on the first day of September 1832 in the County aforesaid John English and who made oath that he knows the Jeremiah Foyate served about two months as a militiaman under the Command of Col Joseph Coats at different places on the Potomac River & in the Regiment commanded by Col Carter, & was then transferred to Col Sturdivant and marched to York about the middle of June 1781. and that he was at the siege of York, and that he attended there.

about the 1st of October 1781. & that he was wounded at the siege of York by Officer Garrett - And I do hereby certify, that the said John English is an Old & infirm man & cannot without great uneasiness come to the Court. that he is well known to me as a man of credibility & that full faith & credit is due to his statement -
Given under my hand &c -
James Langster
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after taking the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states - And further the Court certifies that there is no Clergyman living in the vicinity of the applicant - and that the persons who have signed the above certificates are resident in the County of Fairfax, generally known to the Court, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit -
I William Mop Clerk of the County Court of Fairfax do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Fitzgerald for a pension -
and I do hereby further certify that James Langster before whom the foregoing application is stated to have been made & who has signed the above certificate is an Acting Justice of the peace in & for the County of Fairfax - and that the signature annexed to the above certificate, is the genuine signature of the said James Langster -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of Office this eighteenth day of March 1833 -

Rev. Chap
10/11/71
INVALID.
File No. 10/11/71 General Court Pres. Rev. un.
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 134
[Arrangement of 1870.]